MPs will vote on whether to strip former BHS owner Sir Philip
Green of his knighthood following the collapse of the high street
retailer earlier this year.

A parliamentary debate is scheduled next week to discuss BHS'
collapse, but an amendment has now been added to that debate
including a motion to strip Green of the knighthood he received
in 2006. The motion was proposed by Conservative MP Richard
Fuller, and Michelle Thomson, an independent MP, according to a
report from the BBC.

The BBC reports that it will be the first time in history that
parliament has ever debated the possible cancellation of an
honour.

Green has faced intense scrutiny and criticism for the role he
reportedly played in the collapse of BHS, which filed for
bankruptcy in April. Green sold BHS in 2015 — just over a year
before it collapsed — for £1 to businessman Dominic Chappell, a
former racing driver with almost no experience of retail, who has
filed for bankruptcy at least twice before buying the company.

BHS' collapse cost more than 11,000 people their jobs, and left a
black hole of more than half a billion pounds in its pensions
scheme. Green was accused of "the systematic plunder
of BHS," by a parliamentary committee during a hearing in the
summer.

Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Fuller, one of the motion's proposers
said: "His actions at BHS were of such a nature as to make it
faintly ridiculous for him to continue to warrant an award for
services to retailing."

"I'm putting forward this amendment for the simple reason that he
warrants losing his knighthood," he added.

"This is about expressing a legitimate sentiment about the
way someone has behaved - it's not populist screaming, it's not a
deal being done behind closed doors."

Regardless of whether MPs vote to strip Green of his
honour, the final decision does not lie with the House of
Commons, and instead is in the hands of the Honours
Forfeiture Committee, an ad hoc committee chaired by the head of
the civil service.